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Topic: IRIVER ihp 120 and CF (Read 10309 times)

Hello,I bought a IDE to CF adapter and use a CF card with my beloved IHP 120

It works with this 2GB card, except that I have some hang-up sometimes (I have to rest the playerâ€¦).I bought a 16 GB transcend card, I formatted it the same way than the 2GB one, I copied the .rockbox file (as Iâ€™ve done with the 2GB card)â€¦And, at startup, I have this sad message:ATA error: -00 (and sometimes ATA error: -11)â€œinsert USB cable and press a buttonâ€

with this card, my Iriver 120 seems to work well (sometimes for a few hours) , but sometimes it freeze, and I have to use the reset button to make it work again...And sometimes it's not enough, and when I reset it it boot with the old Iriver firmware. to resolve this problem I have to open the iriver, disconnect the card and re- copying the rockbox file from my PC.

And it works again, until the new freeze ;o)

And when I try to use my transcend 16GB card,, I cannot get disk info data from the rockbox debug menu, as the card is not recognised and I have the "ATA error: -OO" message

radionico, I don't know what model your 2GB Transcend card is, but I do think that you might be on to something by noting that the default setting for the 133x and 266x (but not older) cards is Ultra DMA 4 (noted in this brochure for the 133x cards)...

As noted in this thread, an iPod works fine with Rockbox when using an A-Data CF card, but it gives an error with a Transcend card - but only when he attempts to load Rockbox - Apple's firmware works fine with the Transcend card. And it appears that the same things occurs with Jeff's iRiver H120 and a 32GB, 133x Transcend CF card - he can do several things with it (though I don't know if he can get it to work with the iRiver's firmware), but it gives the same error (ATA error: -80) while attempting to load Rockbox.

I don't know whether Rockbox selects the Ultra DMA mode on boot or not, but if not it seems to me that perhaps the 133x and newer Transcend cards are trying to use Ultra DMA mode 4 while iRiver and iPod only support an older DMA mode?

(FWIW, I currently have a 4GB, 133x Transcend CF card that I've been planing to use in my iRiver H320 [I bought the card before I heard anyone having problems with it], so I too would be very happy if this combination can be made to work. And here's a direct link to the CompactFlash Specification Revision 4.1 PDF.)